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1. A researcher wants to create a random sample of students at Smart U. A friend

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Question

1. A researcher wants to create a random sample of students at Smart U. A friend suggests that the researcher walk across campus and approach every third person she encounters. Is this a random sample? If not, what type of sample is it? Can you develop a procedure to create a random sample? 2. Which correlation is stronger: 0.55 or -0.87? 3. A researcher wishes to learn whether college students use more slang when speaking with a person their own age than when speaking with an older person. Design a within- subiects exDeriment to test this hvoothesis.

Explanation / Answer

1. This is not random sampling. It is systematic sampling

Systematic sampling is a type of probability sampling method in which sample members from a larger population are selected according to a random starting point and a fixed periodic interval. This interval, called the sampling interval, is calculated by dividing the population size by the desired samplesize.

2. -0.87 is stronger as sign is just for direction but value is strength.